Near­ly all de­posits in tank­ers, con­tain­ers and tank wa­g­ons can be re­moved by high-pres­sure wa­ter. Con­ven­tio­n­al clean­ing of con­tain­ers and tanks of all types is in many cas­es very time con­sum­ing and the re­sults are not al­ways sat­is­fy­ing.

Au­to­mat­ic high pres­sure clean­ing there­fore as­serts it­self more and more: A high pres­sure plunger pump press­es wa­ter through the noz­zles of the URA­CA tank clean­ing head TWK with a pres­sure up to 1,600 bar / 23,200 psi [more...]

The se­ries Jet­Pow­er has been ex­tend­ed by Jet­Pow­er40HW to en­sure high pres­sure clean­ing with hot wa­ter up to 95°C at op­er­at­ing pres­sures of up to 1000 bar. Jet­Pow­er40HW is equipped with the lat­est burn­er tech­nol­o­gy [more...]

Wher­ev­er in­dus­trial pipes, pipe as­sem­blies, valves or hous­ings must be ab­so­lute­ly tight the leak in­tegri­ty is test­ed with test pumps. The re­quired test pres­sure can be cre­at­ed with them right on site, de­pend­ing on the mod­el. The drive can be de­signed as man­u­al, elec­tri­cal or petrol-pow­ered drive. Re­spec­tive con­trols and valves there­by per­mit the re­pro­du­ci­ble "trac­ing" of test pres­sure curves and al­so the gen­er­a­tion of test pro­to­cols [more...]

Try out the new spray gun and feel it’s easy han­dling. There­fore, the lat­est ver­sion of the spray gun is per­fect for op­er­at­ing pres­sures of up to 250 bar and high flow rates . With top qual­i­ty ma­te­rials and a so­phis­ti­cat­ed lightweight con­struc­tion it has been pos­si­ble to re­duce the weight of the spray gun to on­ly 1.5 kg [more...]

Thou­sands of con­crete mix­ers are in op­er­a­tion dai­ly. Es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing the warm pe­ri­ods of the year, de­posits form in the mix­er drum that quick­ly be­come hard and in­crease with each ap­pli­ca­tion. URA­CA pro­vides an eco­nom­ic, en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly and ef­fi­cient so­lu­tion [more...]

Around the world, peo­ple have to be sup­plied with drink­ing wa­ter. This task is per­formed by both mu­ni­ci­pal and pri­vate util­i­ties. The sup­p­ly slight­ly el­e­vat­ed re­gions is a par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge, es­pe­cial­ly with re­gard to en­er­gy-ef­fi­cient pump­ing sta­tions.

This task is ma­n­aged both eco­log­i­cal­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly op­ti­mal by the use of URA­CA plunger pumps with the spe­cial drink­ing wa­ter de­sign [more...]

The new KD718 is the fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of the KD716 for sew­er clean­ing ap­pli­ca­tions. The new pow­er end with ad­di­tio­n­al pow­er end seal­ing by de­fault char­ac­ter­izes this pump type. This means greater avai­l­a­bil­i­ty and longer op­er­a­tion time for rough day-to-day op­er­a­tion. The pump com­bines the ad­van­tages of the thou­sand fold ap­proved KD716 with the eco­log­i­cal­ly ben­e­fi­cial pow­er end seal­ing with equal fitt­ing di­men­sions [more...]

The high­ly flex­i­ble mul­ti-us­er sys­tem en­abling the ex­pan­sion of ex­ist­ing URA­CA is a Eu­ro­pean lead­er with their broad spec­trum of high-pres­sure pump sys­tems for ef­fec­tive sew­er clean­ing. URA­CA pumps with a ca­pac­i­ty be­tween 30 and 180 kW / 40 and 241 HP cov­er the en­tire re­quire­ment spec­trum for all jobs in sew­er clean­ing. URA­CA al­so sup­plies spray guns, th­ese are main­ly used for flush­ing away any resi­d­u­al dirt de­posits in the sew­er di­rect­ly un­der the man­hole open­ing, or to clean out the re­ceiv­ing rills for the man­hole cov­er [more...]

High pres­sure plunger pumps of the large pump se­ries from URA­CA are de­signed and man­u­fac­tured for a vast va­ri­e­ty of ap­pli­ca­tions with re­spect to pow­er and pumped medi­um, where­by the machines nor­mal­ly work in cont­in­u­ous op­er­a­tion. Max­i­mum drive pow­ers range up to 2,600 kW/3,485 HP. The flow vol­umes may reach up to 11,000 l/min/2,906 US­gpm, the op­er­at­ing pres­sure can be 3,000 bar/43,500 psi and high­er [more...]

Al­most all de­posits in au­to­claves, re­ac­tors, spray tow­ers and other con­tain­ers can be re­moved with high pres­sure wa­ter. A high pres­sure plunger pump press­es wa­ter through the noz­zles of the URA­CA tank clean­ing head TWK with a pres­sure of more than 2,000 bar / 29.000 psi. The wa­ter jet cuts through the de­posits and with its defined se­quence of mo­tion guar­an­tees sur­face cov­er­ing re­mo­val of th­ese dirt de­posits [more...]

In the ex­trac­tion of ac­tive and valu­able sub­s­tances, aro­mat­ic and flavour­ing sub­s­tances, the food and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­dus­try is forced to make high de­mands con­cern­ing qual­i­ty and econ­o­my of the ex­trac­tion pro­cess. The CO2-method is there­fore pre­fer­ab­ly used in the ex­trac­tion of pri­mary veg­etable prod­ucts. The op­ti­mal se­quence of the pro­cess [more...]

Con­ven­tio­n­al tank clean­ing un­der pres­sure

More and more tank clean­ing fa­cil­i­ties are shun­n­ing con­ven­tial ways to clean a tank to save time and mon­ey.

Near­ly all de­posits in tank­ers, con­tain­ers, and tank wa­g­ons can be re­moved by high-pres­sure wa­ter. Con­ven­tio­n­al clean­ing of con­tain­ers and tanks of all types is in many cas­es very time con­sum­ing and the re­sults are not al­ways sat­is­fac­to­ry. Au­to­mat­ic high-pres­sure clean­ing there­fore as­serts it­self more and more: A high-pres­sure plunger pump press­es wa­ter through the noz­zles of the URA­CA tank clean­ing head TWK with a pres­sure of up to 1,600 bar/23,200 psi. URA­CA is a well-known Ger­man man­u­fac­tur­er of high-pres­sure plunger pumps and high-pres­sure clean­ing sys­tems [more...]

Car­bon dioxide is used par­tic­u­lar­ly in the food, bev­er­age, cos­met­ics and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­dus­try for ex­tract­ing na­t­u­ral sub­s­tances, aro­mas, fats, oils, wax­es, po­ly­mer­s，en­zymes and colou­rants in their su­per­crit­i­cal phys­i­cal state. For de­spite its bad rep­u­ta­tion as a green­house gas, CO2 is a na­t­u­ral and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly sol­vent which has ad­van­tages over syn­thet­ic and harm­ful me­dia such as n-hex­ane when it comes to sus­tain­a­bil­i­ty. Os­cil­lat­ing dis­place­ment pumps are ide­al for su­per­crit­i­cal CO2 ex­trac­tion [more...]

Small pump se­ries of 11 kW opens a wide range of ap­pli­ca­tions

With the new Smart­Line se­ries one of the lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers of high pres­sure plunger pumps and high pres­sure wa­ter jet tech­nol­o­gy com­plet­ed its prod­uct port­fo­lio thus meet­ing the de­mands for low pow­er ranges. Th­ese pumps cov­er a broad spec­trum of in­dus­tries: craft in­dus­try, con­struc­tion sec­tor, mu­ni­ci­pal­i­ties and others [more...]

Tank clean­ing in Zone 0

Re­ac­tors and au­to­claves, con­tain­ers, bar­rels, rail­road cars and road tank­ers from vari­ous in­dus­try branch­es have to be cleaned and re­cy­cled. The con­tain­ers are cleaned in­side and out­side to re­move plas­ter, lac­quer, paints and sim­i­lar sub­s­tances be­fore re­filling and thus meet­ing the high qual­i­ty re­quire­ments. Clean­ing sys­tems from URA­CA[more...]

Ef­fi­cient marathon run­n­ers

Th­ese high pres­sure pumps are de­signed in com­pliance with API 674 for pump­ing tox­ic and flammable fluids at cont­in­u­ous op­er­a­tion. The par­tic­u­lar ad­van­tage of th­ese pumps is the high and con­s­tant vol­u­met­ric ef­fi­cien­cy al­low­ing eco­nom­i­cal op­er­a­tion, in­de­pen­dent from flow rate and op­er­at­ing pres­sure[more...]

En­er­gy-ef­fi­cient pumps for drink­ing wa­ter

URA­CA con­tributes to an en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly aware use of wa­ter and en­er­gy. Around the world, peo­ple have to sup­plied with drink­ing wa­ter. This task is per­formed by both mu­ni­ci­pal and pri­vate util­i­ties. The sup­p­ly slight­ly el­e­vat­ed re­gions is a par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge, es­pe­cial­ly with re­gard to en­er­gy-ef­fi­cient pump­ing sta­tions[more...]

Wher­ev­er in­dus­trial pipes, pipe as­sem­blies, valves or hous­ings must be ab­so­lute­ly tight the leak in­tegri­ty is test­ed with test pumps. The re­quired test pres­sure can be cre­at­ed with them right on site, de­pend­ing on the mod­el [more...]

Tank clean­ing in Zone 0

Thanks to their ex­am­i­na­tion cer­tifi­cate ac­cord­ing to EC di­rec­tive 94/9/EC for cat­e­go­ry 1, the URA­CA tank clean­ing heads se­ries TWK are per­mitt­ed to be used in ex­plo­sion proof ar­eas zone 0 and 20 [more...]

New pres­sure test­ing pump per­mits flex­i­ble use

Wher­ev­er in­dus­trial pipes, pipe as­sem­blies, valves or hous­ings must be tight the leak in­tegri­ty is test­ed with test pumps. The re­quired test pres­sure can be cre­at­ed with them right on site, de­pend­ing on the mod­el. The drive can be de­signed as man­u­al, elec­tri­cal or petrol-pow­ered drive[more...]

Drink­ing wa­ter sup­p­ly in high­er re­gions is a par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge ev­ery­where in the world, es­pe­cial­ly as re­gards the use of en­er­gy-ef­fi­cient pump­ing sta­tions. The spe­cial de­sign of the plunger pumps for drink­ing wa­ter by the renowned Ger­man pump man­u­fac­tur­er URA­CA is per­fect­ly able to ma­n­age this chal­lenge eco­log­i­cal­ly and eco­nom­i­cal­ly [more...]

URA­CA launch­es the Jet­Pow­er180

One of the high­lights of the URA­CA dis­play at BAU­MA was the 3.3t die­sel-pow­ered high-pres­sure clean­ing unit Jet­Pow­er 180. Which a track re­cord of over 120 years, Ger­many-based URA­CA is a lead­ing name in the high-pres­sure pump in­dus­try[more...]

High pres­sure pump sys­tems for ef­fec­tive sew­er clean­ingURA­CA, head­quar­tered in Bad Urach in the south of Ger­many, is a lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of high pres­sure clean­ing sys­tems and com­po­nents [more...]